Sunday, April 20, 2025

Powerful stories aren’t experienced alone. A world of hyperpersonalized stories is a world where we don’t have a shared reality, ...we can’t build common ground across our differences. Stories (and all forms of culture, from art to music) are not powerful simply because they make you feel something when you’re sitting alone experiencing them; their power also comes from the conversations they start.

— Harris Sockel  @Medium

Yesterday, I had a circular conversation. It may have set back what I anticipated could be progress. It feels like failure amplified exponentially by failing memory and eyesight. More distant, a sustainable future has become, because the creatives that come through the door are focused on the 'Me" and not the "We".